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Inspect Grain on Virgin SoilIn an excursion arranged by the B.C. branch of the Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturists, a party of judges and experts visiting the Provincial Fair motored to Sumas Lake dyking operations on Friday.leaving New Westminster at 8:30 a. m., the seven cars reached Ab-otsford at 10:45, where, they were met by the escort of engineers and Land Settlement Board officials, who led the party out to the west prairie lands, where grain crops were inspected that had been grown this year on virgin soil. The excellence of the produce was noted by the scientists, the corn, grass, oats and barley being of prime quality, promising, great things of the soil when it has been worked up. where 150 square miles of drainage is to be concentrated t two points1 where it will be controlled by the engineers.
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Abbotsford Post
Abbotsford, British Columbia, CA
Fri, Sep 21, 1923
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